Chapter 731: Greed

Kane, Jenny and Lana came out of the hotel and opted for walking.

According to information Kane obtained from Jamie, a black man, many of the city's taxi drivers work part-time 'eyeliner', or rather, two companies dominate the city's taxi industry, and behind both companies, there is an extraordinary organizational force.

This city is called Paradise City, but it is not a paradise for ordinary people, but for witches, warlocks and the like, giving Kane the feeling of a real-life version of Salem.

Now it's past 22:30, and after a day of tossing, the three of them are not in good shape and exhausted, but because of this, they need a reassuring safe house.

That's how Kane persuaded Jenny and Lana to hold on a little longer, to be specific, by walking about 6 kilometers on a cold, rainy night.

After walking for more than an hour, near midnight, I finally arrived at the place, an old apartment building with a history of more than 30 years.

This is one of the top safehouses that Jamie has set up for himself. The so-called top is that no one knows about it except him, and if he chooses to live here, he will inevitably change his appearance, and he will not show his usual appearance.

In Kane's opinion, the best thing about this safe house is the design, which was built with a mezzanine. The end result was that there were two rooms, obviously in the apartment building, but there were no ordinary doors and windows, and no one knew about its existence.

The caretaker of the apartment seemed to be very accustomed to all kinds of people coming and going, even at midnight, he only glanced at the three Kanes who came in, and continued to watch the talk show on the small TV with his eyebrows fluttering.

Take the old elevator up to the top 5th floor, then turn left to the end of the hallway, where Kane pulls out the key to open room number 512.

He had already been prepared, and when he came out of Jamie's place, he had already taken the key.

The internal layout of the room is very simple, with a kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedroom, adding up to a usable area of 110 square meters. For Paradise City, a large residential area, it is considered the most common apartment for singles and two-person families.

The decoration and furniture in the room also uphold this 'not up or down' medium to low standard, the only feature is simplicity, and a little warmth.

Jenny and Lana scrutinized the room, while Kane glanced at it and headed straight for the kitchen where the secret door was.

The kitchen looks ordinary, but the cabinet next to the door is a secret door, and when opened, the cabinet turns to reveal a portal that runs side by side with the kitchen door.

This is one of the clever aspects of the safe house design, separated by a wall, it will be considered a neighbor's house, but in fact there is a mezzanine. The mezzanine is a passage with a vertical staircase leading to the attic above, which is a real safe house, adjacent to the elevator room and cleverly combined.

The furnishings in the safe house are becoming simpler, but emergency items such as medicine, easy-to-store food, bottled water, common tools, and even guns and knives are all available.

Kane checked it briefly and nodded with satisfaction, with his current ability, specially prepared, the safe house built may not be much better than this ready-made.

"You guys rest first, I still have some things to do, and if I miss tonight, I won't have a chance. ”

Lana was tempted to have a good chat with Kane, but Jenny stopped her and shook her head, indicating that now was not the time.

Well, it's okay to talk to Jenny first, after all, the two are actually 'sisters' who are closer than best friends.

Kane left the apartment instead of taking the usual route, but through the window, not jumping directly, but using the rain drain pipe as a rope, sliding-braking-sliding, relying on superb skill and body coordination, he reached the ground lightly and vigorously, as if he was hanging Weiya.

First walked three streets, then in an underground garage, picked up a pickup truck.

It's also Jamie's legacy, a similar legacy, found in every area of Paradise City.

Jamie is so insecure because he has an unbearable past of stealing the Secret Codex, betraying the sect, and being hunted down three times, each time narrowly missing his life.

Jamie stayed in Paradise City for the longest time, mainly because it was not a good place, and the supernatural forces were intertwined here, containing each other, and being very hostile to foreign colleagues, Jamie took advantage of this special environment, coupled with his own strength, and chose the right path (intelligence gathering, stolen goods trading, and chores that are in line with the world), so that he had a place and was considered to have integrated into the city, which was settled.

But the lessons left in the past are too profound, and he still tried his best to leave all kinds of retreats for himself, but he didn't expect to provoke Kane, a evil star, and then completely search for souls after directly killing him, so that his soul and flesh were destroyed, and the secrets were all mastered by Kane.

Kane is suspicious by nature, and has experienced the incident of the living being calculated by the dead, once the important information is not in place, it is very likely to be pitted by the complex arrangement of the dead before his death, especially related to property inheritance, often very angry, the simple principle of man-made death for money, can attract new strong enemies.

Because of this, Kane has always maintained a high level of vigilance, using Jamie's legacy as much as possible to isolate himself.

For example, when using a safe house, he would rather walk than use Jamie's vehicle.

And now he uses Jamie's car to take out the extraordinary supplies from the grocery store, but instead of pulling them back to the safe house where Lana and Jenny live, they will have an underground garage and store them with the car.

Although it is a super demon world, according to Jamie's social status and status in the supernatural world, it is difficult to get good supernatural items and materials, and the price is often extremely expensive. All the savings add up, and it's a long way from filling up a pickup.

Kane's trip went smoothly, and at a little after 1 a.m., he had already parked the pickup truck back in the garage and closed the door and locked it.

It stands to reason that by now, today's operation should be over, the people have been rescued, and the harvest is very good, and then even if you don't consider incubating for a period of time and digesting resources, you should at least stop for half a day, recover, and recuperate.

However, people are greedy, and this greed is often supported by good reason.

Kane is like this, and the embarrassing situation he is facing now is that he has no money.

An elite investigator like him, although every time he goes out on a mission, the fee is scary, but the frequency of the task is not high, basically not open for half a year, open for a year.

In addition, the cost is large, the more high-end investigators are, the more they will not be satisfied with using ordinary weapons and equipment to face the case, and all items that are related to the extraordinary are ridiculously expensive.

Of course, there is a lot of moisture here, but who makes you ignorant and lacks channels, but the demand is still rigid, who will you kill if you don't kill you?

And Kevin's expenses are more than other investigators, and he has a family to support, although he has slept with his master's wife and daughter, but in terms of money supply, Kevin is still very good.

Like the psychiatric hospital Sam is in, top-notch.

The investigators often deal with the mentally ill, and they are well aware of the dark side of the psychiatric hospital, so to speak, in this world, at least more than 60% of the mental hospitals are the kind of "penal" hospitals that good people can enter and treat the mentally ill.

And the so-called top is to look at the face of money, even if the patient throws and plays everywhere every day, there is a special person to serve him, and he will not be abused, and earn this money, right?

Jenny is able to support herself, but the problem is that Jenny has an unsuccessful brother and elderly parents.

How do you say that sentence, I'm not afraid of no good things, I'm afraid of no good people. There is a mess in the family, three days and five heads of defeat and trouble, life is very difficult and comfortable, so Jenny has to help her parents from time to time, or go to the police station to pick up her younger brother, and I don't know how much bail and fines are paid.

And Lana has to go to school, which is also expensive, although Lana also does odd jobs from time to time, but that money is at most enough for her living expenses, and the tuition needs to be calculated separately.

As for loans, I'm sorry, one of the far-reaching effects of Lana's previous extraordinary events is that her personal reputation with banks and insurance has fallen to an undesirable level, and unless she gets rich, she will have a stable income flow every ten years and eight years, and don't want to raise her credit.

In addition, after Kane took over Kevin's body, he stayed in the hospital for nearly a hundred days, which is also all money, so Kane really doesn't have much money in his pocket now.

Isn't it the previous case of disappearance in Montenegrin Prison, which ended in stages, and there was an income of hundreds of thousands of green money?

That's right, but that money Kane has basically advanced in advance, don't forget that the handsome and cool armor he uses is like a thunderbolt in the alloy gear, and the knives of the special metal material are all laboratory level, hundreds of thousands of dollars are really not expensive, and there is a favor from Phoenix here, otherwise even if he has money, there is no way to obtain materials of this level.

Speaking of which, tonight's experience also proves that this set of equipment should be upgraded, he is wearing a vest-style cuirass tonight, but unfortunately the butcher's punch is a blunt attack, and the armor's defense ability against this kind of blow is not strong enough, and the energy superconducting system can spread the point strike into a surface strike in the first time, so as to have a better protective effect.

This is thanks to obtaining a batch of extraordinary resources from Jamie, otherwise it would be a lot of trouble to attack the Green Mansion and even climb out of the ropes, and fall into the dilemma of hard recuperation.

Imagine two fragile beauties, carrying a seriously wounded person, wandering in a strange and murderous city, or it is the middle of the night when it is raining cold......

So, Kane is no longer a need, but a hunger, and he wants to take the opportunity to gain more, in order to strengthen himself, so as to obtain security and a basic sense of security.

In this case, he can also see the worldly wealth and money.

So after thinking about it, he ventured again, went to another point, picked up another car, and visited Jamie's grocery store for the third time.

This time, it's to pick up Jamie's body.

Kane originally planned to make Jamie's corpse into a puppet and act as a 'shadow', and even did the preliminary work, including the method of killing him and planting the 'fire' in his body.

However, after meeting the butcher in the mansion, Kane likes the new and hates the old.

Jamie's special method makes his corpse superior to ordinary flesh and blood, and after being made into a flesh golem, it has a higher growth limit. But compared to the first hard comparison under the butcher's demigod, it's nothing.

The arrangements he had in Jamie's body were no match for the fire elemental infestation caused by the 8-stack ignition effect.

Of course, even so, Jamie's corpse shouldn't be wasted, and Jenny and Lana don't have guardians around them!

However, before that, Jamie's body had another purpose, which was why Kane had not carried it before, and had made another trip specifically for it. He suspects that Jamie's body has a passive nature of positioning.

Speaking of which, there is a reference to the secret book that Jamie stole back then.

In Kane's eyes, this secret book is actually one of the manuscripts of the more famous strange book "Necronomicon" in the world of Cthulhu, and it is a broken chapter.

The original author of the Necronomicon was Abdullah al-Hassad, an Arab poet who was born at the end of the 7th century A.D., wrote the book in 730 A.D., and died shortly thereafter.

It is generally accepted that Al-Hassad was insane by the time he wrote this book.

This is normal in the world of Cthulhu, according to the thinking logic of ordinary people, they have no ability to describe the various kinds of old rulers, so the madness in the eyes of mortals can be said to be a necessary state.

The main contents of the book include summoning/sending away Azatoth, summoning/sending away Ketugua, summoning/sending away Hasta, summoning/sending away Newgeta, summoning/sending away Shabu Nikolas, summoning/sending away Yoghur Sothoth, contact with ghouls, contact with sand lurks, contact with Nyaratotip, Domination, Curse of Azatoth, Dust of Suleiman, Old Seal, Powder of Ibn Qaz, Resurrection of the Dead, Apophere, Summoning/Controlling Baiaki, Summoning/Controlling the Flame Spirit, Summoning/Controlling Servants of the Outer Gods, Seal of the Willy ......

The content of the manuscript is not so rich, especially the broken chapters, which means that only part of the thirty chapters of the original work are included. The reason for this is not the destruction is not the main reason, but the lack of skill of the copyists, the inability to completely translate the original work, and many of them add their own understanding, or even speculation, so that the various manuscripts can be said to be uneven.

In Kane's eyes, the original book is an inferior magic book, and the manuscript is even more false, and many of them have gone to his grandmother's house, which is simply a rotten thing that pits people and does not live long.

Jamie actually relied on such a pit book to practice some results. Kane can only say that Jamie's life's luck has probably been smashed on this book, and only then has he achieved something with a low probability of outrageousness.

Kane even believes that this is the reason why the Ori Abyss Society, where Jamie was originally located, has never given up chasing him.

Because every time he chases and kills, his performance surprises the other party, how many people cultivate the secret codex, either without an inch, or go crazy and die, but Jamie is alive and kicking, getting stronger and stronger, whether it is the cultivation experience or itself, it is very valuable.

Kane felt that it was precisely because of this that Jamie was able to escape again and again.

However, now Jamie is dead. The balance is broken, and Kane thinks that the fastest to find it will be this Weaving Society, after all, this organization is the only one who understands Jamie's true roots and pays special attention to him.

Driving a half-used car, Kane entered the southern part of the city.

If there are slums in heaven, there are slums in Nancheng.

The people who live here, poverty is not the main characteristic, clutter is.

They basically work in neighboring cities, engage in many low-level jobs, have meager salaries, have families to support, or encounter such and such difficulties, so they can only move here, from a certain point of view, it is the same as not being able to live in the suburbs of the city.

Because of the miscellaneous, so chaotic, because of the chaos, the law and order is not good, and those who have some ways have moved out, so they are getting poorer and poorer.

Jamie's 'home' is here, and there is even a family member, a fat woman who is deaf and dumb. It is said that Jamie was taken in back then, and he was not married, so he lived together in such a foolish way for more than ten years.

Kane, who has mastered Jamie's secret, knows that the black fat woman is not his wife at all, but Jamie's long-term hired thug and a murderer.

Jamie has a lot of evidence of this fat black woman whose real name is Mel, and he has only one requirement, which is to take care of the family.

When Kane arrived, Mel was playing Wild West with a black man. Kane looked at Mel's 'tonnage', and then looked sympathetically at the size of the black man under him, threw Jamie's skin in front of Mel, who was about to go crazy, and said, "Jamie is already here, are you planning to follow in his footsteps, or take back your freedom?"

Mel stared at Jamie's skin with cow-like eyes, and the black man under her recognized what Kane had thrown at him, and he immediately wilted in fright, and was about to scream, Mel Hai's big fist came to the ground.

'Bang!' was concussed, his head was still tossing back and forth on the Simmons mattress, and the person had fainted.

Mel didn't plan to wrap a bath towel or anything, so he got up and faced Kane naked, about 185 tall, weighing more than 260 pounds, with a big head like a bucket, and curly hair, like a bunch of pimples on his bald head, a big flat nose, a lion's wide mouth, a face full of meat, a fierce temperament, and a sense of oppression......

Few people will be interested in this kind of sumo wrestler + angry King Kong body, anyway, Kane is not among them, and there is no nausea because of his broad vision.

Mel saw that Kane was not moved by her momentum at all, and his sea-blue eyes were as deep as the abyss, which was regarded as acknowledging Kane's strength, and said in a thick voice: "I not only want freedom, but also money, and I can't do it without it." ”

Kane smiled and threw a brown paper file bag to her: "You can pick two of Jamie's real estate, don't bargain with me, or I won't mind killing you by extraordinary means." ”

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers, and the blue-white flames burned in the palm of his fingers, and the heat was amazing, and Mel felt as if he was standing in front of a high-temperature smelting furnace, and between his breaths, a layer of oil was burned on his face.

Swallowing hard, Mel said, "Okay." ”

Kane ignored her, but walked into the depths of the room, showing that he was familiar with the layout of the house.